Employee Voice: A Mechanism to Harness Employees’ Potential for Sustainable Success

Listening to employees’ concerns reduces their dissatisfaction, but moreover, for an organization to achieve sustainable success, employees must raise their creative voice and give their input in decision-making without the fear of rejection in a psychologically safe environment. Ethical leaders facilitate such a participative style of management. A bureaucratic culture, as is generally encountered in Pakistan’s work settings, poses real challenges to those who dare to speak up, therefore the importance of ethical leadership, leader–member exchange (LMX), and psychological safety cannot be neglected as coping mechanisms to sustain the employee voice for mutual gains. To investigate ethical leadership’s mediating mechanisms and boundary conditions on voice behavior, we examined a moderated mediation model with the leader–member exchange as a moderator and psychological safety as a mediator. Grounded in social exchange theory (SET), the current study uniquely posits and tests that employees feel psychologically safe in the presence of an ethical leader with whom they have high-quality social exchanges. Data were collected from 281 employees from the public corporations and private enterprises of the petroleum sector of Karachi. Results of the analysis, through SPSS and AMOS, revealed that psychological safety mediated the relationship of ethical leadership and voice behavior, while the indirect effect of ethical leadership on voice behavior (via psychological safety) is stronger for those employees who enjoy high-quality exchanges with ethical leaders. LMX was also found to moderate the relationship between ethical leadership and voice behavior. Contributions, recommendations, and limitations of the current study and further research areas are also discussed. The study offers practical insight on the mechanism of ethical leadership on employee voice behavior and recommends leaders to develop social exchanges to improve voice behavior for sustainable success.

THE ROLE OF ETHICAL LEADERSHIP AND WHISTLEBLOWING INTENTIONS: MEDIATING APPARATUS OF MORAL IDENTITY

Separation of strategic approaches and morals prompted various business outrages and untrustworthy practices in working environments. This encouraged researchers and practice holders to examine significance of ethical quality at work environment. In particular, the job that moral chiefs play in advancing positive representative practices is urgent. This examination article has featured the part of moral innovators in molding whistleblowing goals of their subordinates. Alongside, this exploration article has likewise researched the part of good character. An aggregate of four speculations, analyzing the immediate impact of moral initiative on moral personality and whistleblowing expectations and meditational job of good character were proposed. This exploration article embraced a period slacked research article plan and gathered data from representative friend dyads at three focuses on schedule. Number of respondents was 214; Cross-sectional technique was used for data collection. Respondents were selected from different services organizations from Multan. Data was analysed on SPSS and AMOS. Results were obtained by applying reliability test, ANOVA, Correlation test, and regression test by using PROCESS Macro. Results gained verified that the role of ethical leaders in shaping moral identity of employees as well as their whistleblowing intentions. The findings suggest that employees working under ethical leaders are inclined to stand up against malevolent and unethical practices taking place at their workplace. Thus, organizations must hire leaders with higher ethical inclinations and also train the existing leaders about importance of ethics. Moreover, this research article has highlighted multiple avenues for future research.

The Impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on Ethical Leadership

Objectives: ethical leadership is a widely discussed topic, but so far there are still debates around this topic, even arguing that ethical leadership is just statements of right and wrong or that it is a style “leadership style”. Now, the impact of the fourth industrial revolution will make ethical leadership even more essential to improving leadership performance. Therefore, the aim of the study is to show the advantages and challenges of the fourth industrial revolution, these impacts on ethical leadership, so that the effects are useful to leadership performance. Focus on developing ethical leadership. Methods / Analysis: this study conducts analysis and evaluation from data sources on Science Direct, Web of Science, and Scopus, thereby showing the basic characteristics of leadership, ethics, ethical leadership, fourth industrial revolution, advantages and challenges, discussions on the impact of the fourth industrial revolution on ethical leadership. Findings: The findings of the study indicate that the ethical leadership qualities are quite stable, such as perseverance, service spirit, tolerance, power sharing, fairness, etc. The impact of the fourth technological revolution will make ethical leaders more effective in their roles, making it easier for leaders to overcome challenges, contributing to improving leadership performance. Novelty / Improvement: research shows that ethical leaders will be dedicated leaders, service-minded leaders, impacted by the fourth technological revolution, making leadership even more powerful. Virtue becomes more and more important. Therefore, in order to successfully implement the fourth industrial revolution, it is necessary to pay attention to developing ethical leadership. Doi: 10.28991/HEF-2021-02-03-05 Full Text: PDF

Is There Enough Effort by Corporations in Malaysia to Promote Ethical Leadership and Long-Term Growth? A Perspective Analysis

Employees are under greater pressure to tackle more difficult ethical issues as global competition and economic demands rise. It focuses on the concept of ethical leadership, the personality traits of ethical leaders, and the views linked to the antecedents and results of ethical leadership. Following an ethical approach leads in a positive experience for everyone involved in a firm; the issue of ethical leadership is discussed in this article. Ethical leadership is a form of leadership in which individuals act in ways that are acceptable and essential for the greater good in all parts of their lives. Any individual in a management position should exercise ethical leadership. This is the most major ethical problem that our society and workplace confront, as well as the most significant ethical leadership task. This study provides possibilities for academics to investigate new findings in leadership style and aids in understanding how companies may produce ethical leaders in the workplace. A successful and efficient leader blends ethics and leadership, making their presence known and emerging as a role model to play a more positive and important role in a company. The presentation also addresses the subject of developing ethical leaders for the twenty-first century. One of the goals of university education is to develop students' common sense so that they may become effective citizens who can contribute constructively to our community and industry. This guarantees that teachers in charge of ethics curriculum and preparation in companies must ensure that future leaders grasp the ideas and implement ethical standards in their everyday job routines.

Impact of Ethical Leadership and Mediating Effect of Organization Culture on Employees Performance: A Case of SSGC Zonal Office District Jacobabad Sindh, Pakistan

Ethical Leadership plays a vital role in every organization and is always seen as a positive perspective both in research and in practice and predicts the relation of employee performance and mediating role of organizational culture. The present research is conducted in a domestic public listed company named Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC). The research was conducted for the purpose of evaluating the role of ethical leaders, followers who act and behave ethically, this paper presumes the high and low levels of ethical leadership and would show the positive and negative aspects of executives over employee performance and how organizational culture mediates and is affected by ethical leaders. In this paper primary resources were used, for the primary purpose, the questionnaire was spread to know the impacts of ethical leadership on employee performance and how organization culture mediates within SSGC.

Role of Ethical Leaders in Sustainable Business: An Aristotelian Virtue Ethics Perspective

Sustainable development is one of the major concerns of present time mainly because of the rapid proliferation of business organizations. In order to develop economically, business organizations excessively use and misuse natural resources that directly causes harm to environment and society. Besides, there are some other causes also responsible for the environmental deterioration these include population explosion, enormous industrialization and lots of anthropogenic activities. The present paper tries to bring in the cognizant how business organization unknowingly leads to environmental problems and juxtaposes economic development and environmental issues. On saying this, it precisely indicates that both economic growth and sustainable environment are equally required for our society but not at the cost of one another. At this point, it is argued that only by contemplating and by engaging ethical leaders the business organisations could be able to maintain the balance between plant, people and profit. In continuation with this, the present research would engage two significant questions: firstly, what does sustainable development mean and why it is predominantly needed for the present society? Secondly, what are the expected roles of ethical leaders in maintaining the sustainable development in an organisation?

University Professors as “Transformative Leaders”

University professors have a moral obligation to be ethical leaders in guiding their stewards. Transformative Leadership, a concept identified in both the educational and business leadership literature, provides a valuable model for university professors to consider as they interact with students and help them to learn and to prepare for the challenges of the modern world. This paper integrates the education and business leadership perspectives of Transformative Leadership and identifies the contributions that this leadership model can contribute to the effectiveness of university professors who adopt its principles.